In Pictures: World's Most Beautiful Cars

To compile our list of the world's most beautiful cars, we asked a panel of experts to nominate their top picks. Our judges were Quentin Willson, former host of Top Gear; Gil Dezer, a Florida collector with more than 200 vintage and luxury cars in his portfolio; Eric Minoff, an automotive expert with the Bonhams & Butterfields auction house; and Rob Myers, the founder of RM Auctions, an Ontario, Canada-based international auction house for vintage automobiles. We told them to nominate cars from any era and any manufacturer that are valued today for their unmistakable beauty.

1937 Delahaye 135MS Figoni et Falaschi

Ferrari 250 GT SWB

Recommended by: Quentin Willson, Rob Myers

Expert take: "It's so beautiful and so delicate that you want to pick it up between four fingers and thumb and run it along the top of a table," Willson says. "It's balance. Everything's right about it. The cockpit flows into the rear haunches, the bonnet just flows beautifully into the windshield, yet it has this kind of really muscle stance. It fills its wheel arches very convincingly, very athletically."

2008 Koenigsegg CCX

Recommended by: Gil Dezer

Expert take: "The [Edition] CCX is really beautiful because the entire body is made out of carbon fiber," Dezer says. "You see the carbon fiber texture in the body. And there's no paint in the body. It has a grayish woven look, and it's beautiful. It costs a fortune to do it." [Photo is of the Koenigsegg CCX]

McLaren F1

Recommended by: Quentin Willson

Expert take: "The F1, apart from being really one of the very best cars in the world, has this tremendous flow, this tremendous muscular stance, but it's like a jewel," Willson says. "There's a flow to it: the front haunches, the low cockpit and the three seats across. And when you look at it, it doesn't take up that much space."

1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster

Bugatti Type 41 Royale

Recommended by: Eric Minoff

Expert take: "It's kind of the epitome of a grand old limousine," Minoff says. "It's got a hood that goes on for miles, and it's got an open driver's compartment and a very luxurious passenger area. It's the kind of car Cruella De Vil would be driving--with a Dalmatian-skin interior."

1938 Talbot-Lago T150 CSS Tear Drop Figoni et Falaschi

Recommended by: Gil Dezer, Rob Myers

Expert take: "It's a classic," Dezer says. "The tear-drop car in the '30s was a beautiful car back then, and it's still a beautiful car today. You see it and you're like, 'Wow!' It definitely takes your attention."

Porsche 911

Recommended by: Gil Dezer

Expert take: "The form of the car follows the perfect contours for the driver and the engine and the whole symphony of how you drive that car," Dezer says. "To have made the car and not changed the body style for 40 years, they made little variations and variations and variations, but if you put a 1963 next to a 2009, it has the same silhouette. That to me means they did it right out of the box, and it's still a great-selling car. No other car has been like that."